2009/10/21 Andrew Flegg <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > At the summit, and according to the documentation[1], an EContact should have > its *persistent* UID stored if you need to refer to a contact at a later date. > > However, how does this work with merging contacts? If I merge a contact > (UID=1) with another (UID=2), are stored references to both persistent UIDs > still valid? > > Intuitively, I'd guess not, but if this is supposed to be a persistent UID > _and_ the contact info is still in the address book, perhaps there's some > cleverness under the covers. > > Any info gratefully received. > > Thanks in advance, > > Andrew > > [1] > https://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Using_Generic_Platform_Components/Using_Address_Book_API#Attribute_Convenience_Functions >
I suppose that when you merge two contacts, one gets deleted and its fields added to the other one. I don't know how you do merge the contacts, but if you merge contact UID 1 into contact UID 2, then, logically, UID 1 would be deleted, wouldn't it? Aniello _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
